In the evening of that day, Cao Cao's army camped on a flat dam close to a stream dozens of miles away from Duozhou.

Just when Cao Cao was discussing with Xun Yu in the big tent, the herald came to report, "Your Majesty, General Zhu Yan is here with 20,000 soldiers!" ”

Zhu Yan is the female guard captain beside Zhu Rong, and she can be regarded as Zhu Rong's closest confidant.

Cao Cao's eyes lit up, "Let Jiang Tai arrange the camping of Zhu Yan's subordinates and invite General Zhu Yan here!" ”

"No!"

A moment later, Zhu Yan, dressed in leather armor and fit and sexy, came to the big tent.

"The last general Zhu Yan to meet Your Majesty!" Zhu Yan greeted the Tao.

"No need to be polite! I'm here to ask you, how did Zhu Rong get hurt? Xu Zheng, what about them? ”

Zhu Yan replied: "On that day, the patriarch and the adults of various departments discussed political affairs in the cottage, and everything was as usual at that time, but when we left the cottage and returned to Jiaozhou, we were suddenly besieged by the Wugo tribe, and we and General Xu Zheng protected the patriarch to fight out of the siege, but in the process, the patriarch was hit by the poisonous arrow of the thief!" ”

Cao Cao frowned, and his eyes were full of murder.

"How is Zhu Rong's injury now?" Cao Cao asked urgently.

Zhu Yan said with a worried face: "The patriarch is still unconscious, the poisonous wound she suffered is secretly made by the Mountain Clan, even they themselves have no antidote!" ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but be anxious, "No, we can't delay Wei Dianwei here, immediately order the cavalry team to prepare, and we will rush to Jiaozhou overnight!" ”

"Your Majesty, it's really not safe to travel overnight!" Xun Yu hurriedly persuaded.

Cao Cao said categorically: "I can't wait for dawn!" Wen Ruo don't worry! The 5,000 cavalry are all the elite of the Imperial Forest, and no one in the world has been able to break through their defenses! ”

Seeing that Xun Yu was going to persuade him again, Cao Cao said impatiently: "Okay, I have already decided!" Wen Ruo, I wish you all to stay here! ”

"Your Majesty, I came to protect Your Majesty and can't stay, I will bring two thousand mountain cavalry to escort you!" Zhu Yan said, Cao Cao didn't say much, and nodded.

A moment later, 7,000 cavalry escorted Cao Cao, Hua Tuo, and Zhang Zhongjing towards Jiaozhou, dozens of miles away, although the scenery on both sides flew behind him, Cao Cao still felt that the speed was too slow.

The horse team had been running for about a quarter of an hour, and the scene before them was two dense forests sandwiched by a road of more than ten meters.

Dian Wei immediately stopped the horse team.

"Dian Wei, why did you stop?" Cao Cao came to Dian Wei's side and asked.

"Your Majesty!"

Dian Wei saluted, then pointed to the terrain not far in front of him and said, "This kind of terrain is not conducive to ambushes, and it's still night!" ”

Cao Cao glanced at the terrain in front of him and couldn't help frowning, and at this time, a flock of resident birds suddenly appeared in the dense forest on the right.

Cao Cao smiled coldly, Zhu Yan and Dian Wei had already noticed the movement in the dense forest, and looked at Cao Cao together, "Your Majesty? ”

"Zhu Yan, your mountain cavalry should be very good at jungle warfare, right?"

Zhu Yan said proudly: "Although the Jiaozhou Legion cannot be compared with the main force of the empire, but in the mountainous dense forest, we are not inferior to anyone!" ”

"Good!"

Immediately, Cao Cao pointed to the dense forest on the right and said: "Send a team of mountain cavalry to assault in, remember, don't attack, just create momentum!" ”

Although Zhu Yan didn't know much about it, he still didn't hesitate to agree, and then Zhu Yan ordered five hundred mountain cavalry to attack.

"Dian Wei, send a team of iron horsemen to slowly advance to the edge of the forest, if there is an enemy who escapes, try to catch me alive!"

"No!" Dian Wei promised to beat the horse and went down.

After a while, five hundred mountain cavalry screamed and rushed to the edge of the forest, and released a puff of arrows into the forest, and there were several screams in the forest, and then, the forest seemed to be quiet, and a rain of arrows roared out of the forest, and the dozen or so mountain cavalry in the front screamed and fell off their horses, and at the same time the loud noise in the forest Rong Rong climbed towards the southeast, and the ambushers obviously wanted to escape, they did not run out of the woods in a panic, but ran in the direction of the mountain in the dense forest.

"Your Majesty, let our people catch up, shall we?" Dian Wei asked.

Cao Cao shook his head and frowned: "In the dark night and dense forest, the enemy situation is inexplicable, and if you encounter an ambush, you will definitely suffer heavy losses!" Order all teams to be on guard and not to pursue! ”

"No!"

Zhu Yan returned to Cao Cao with dozens of horses, and Zhu Yan asked his subordinates to put down dozens of corpses on the saddle.

"Your Majesty, this is what we found in the woods!" Zhu Yan jumped off the war horse and pointed to the corpse on the ground.

Cao Cao looked at it carefully, frowned, and said, "This seems to be the dress of the mountain people!" ”

The corpses on the ground were draped in animal skins, and most of them had simple figures painted on their faces.

Zhu Yan nodded, "The mountain people in Jiaozhou are all dressed like this, and there are some differences between the tribes. ”

Zhu Yan paused next to the corpse, pointed to a simple white pattern in the shape of a mountain on the corpse's forehead and said, "Your Majesty, this is the mark of the Ugo clan!" ”

Cao Cao frowned, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. When you do this kind of thing, you even draw a mark that represents your identity on the door of your head! However, it is also possible that they feel that there is no need to hide their identity now, after all, almost the whole world now knows that they hurt Zhu Rong.

"Zhu Yan, when you were attacked, the other party was also dressed like this?"

Zhu Yan nodded, and said with a look of resentment: "It's them!" ”

Cao Cao pointed to the mark on the corpse's forehead and asked emphatically, "When they ambushed you at that time, they also had such marks on their foreheads?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, is there anything wrong?"

Cao Cao shook his head, "It's not good to say now!" Let's hurry to Jiaozhou City! ”

The horse team re-embarked on the road, and after half an hour, they finally arrived at Jiaozhou City.

Cao Cao came to the office in a hurry.

"Where's Zhu Rong?" Cao Cao grabbed an official from the government office and asked, the official couldn't say why, and looked very nervous.

"Your Majesty, please follow me!" Zhu Yan on the side.

Cao Cao immediately followed Zhu Yan all the way to the main room in the back hall.

As soon as he entered the room, Cao Cao's eyes were attracted by the figure lying on the bed, and several maids who were taking care of Zhu Rong by the bed looked panicked, Zhu Yan made a gesture for them all to retreat, and then retreated himself, and gently closed the door.

Cao Cao came to the edge of the bed and sat down, looked at Zhu Rong who was lying quietly, and couldn't help but blame himself: "I'm late!" ”

At this time, Zhu Rong was very quiet, his resolute and beautiful face looked a little haggard, his beautiful eyes were closed tightly as if he was asleep, Cao Cao rubbed Zhu Rong's cheeks, and suddenly shouted outside: "Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, come in!" ”

The door immediately rang softly, and Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing walked in quickly. Both of them turned a little blue, and after more than half a month of continuous travel, these two pampered medical saints couldn't bear it. (To be continued.) )